Established Professor of Podiatric Medicine and Head of the School of Health Sciences, University of Galway. Caroline led on the establishment of the first school of podiatry in the RePublic - No restriction of Ireland successfully steering this new programme through first and subsequent professional validations. Caroline is a podiatrist by background and before taking up post in academia she was previously employed as a Senior Podiatrist in the NHS where she specialised in vascular disease. Caroline has a specialist interest in tissue viability, vascular and diabetic foot disease.Caroline has published approximately 85 peer-reviewed papers in the field of tissue viability, particularly on the diabetic foot, and has presented her work internationally. Caroline co-edited the text Lower Extremity Wounds: A problem-based Approach, and undertook her PhD, in 2007, in the need to build and disseminate evidence-based wound care. Caroline has acted as co-applicant and Principal Investigator (PI) for a number of clinical trials including two randomised controlled trials of topical therapies for wounds. She is currently Co-Director and founding member of the Alliance for Research and Innovation in Wounds at the University of Galway. Prof. McIntosh has been co-applicant on several successful grant applications worth 3 million from the Health Research Board, Irish Research Council and the NIHR HTA programme. She is currently co-lead on an HRB CDA grant of 1.5 million entitled DFD PRIMO (Diabetic Foot Disease, from prevention to improved patient outcomes) which has funded six PhD scholarships in diabetic foot disease. Caroline was Chairperson of the Western Branch of the Wound Management Association of Ireland (WMAI) from 2009-2015 and President of WMAI from 2013-2015. She was Chair of the Diabetic Foot Working Group for the HSE National Wound Management Guidelines (2018) for Ireland. She is a member of the Podiatry Registration Board, CORU and a member of the Professoriate of the College of Podiatry, London, U.K. She was Associate Editor for Trials journal from 2015-2020 and she is a current member of the International Working Group for the Diabetic Foot (wound healing interventions) and a member of the European Wound Management Association (EWMA) Diabetic Foot Committee.

Prof. McIntoshs research interests are primarilyin the field of diabetes, peripheral neuropathies, lower extremity wounds, tissue viability and vascular disease.Specific research interests include:Diabetic foot disease- assessment amp; management strategies.Prevention of Diabetic Foot Ulcers, lifestyle medicine, psychosocial impacts and wellbeing.Topical therapies for diabetic foot ulceration.Diabetes-related distal symmetric polyneuropathy- novel management strategies.Peripheral vascular disease and ischaemic ulceration.CardiovascularscreeningRandomised controlled clinical trials.

I have over 20 years of academic experience in Podiatric Medical Education.I have a wealth of experience in developing new undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, steering these courses through professional accreditation and regulatory approval processes. I participate in the delivery of undergraduate teaching whereby I aspire to engage and enthuse students at all levels. I am particularly interested in diabetes, lower extremity wounds and clinical research. I teach wound care and diabetes on the undergraduate programme. I teach on the postgraduate Diabetic foot Disease taught module.I alsohave experience of teaching on graduate programmes and supervision of postgraduate research students. I strive for innovation and excellence and employ a range of teaching pedagogy to engage students.